Answer by Jarrad for How to map arms of the galaxy?
An alternative to the many great ideas here:Divide your galaxy up into 100 domains named after the highest mass object within each domain. The highest mass object is poetically treated as the cosmic...
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It could be that the first interstellar navigators spoke Hawaiian, and they noticed that the language's 200 possible consonant-vowel-vowel (CVV) syllables would neatly divide the thousand-light-year...
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If you have a map of named pulsars you could define a coordinate system that would uniquely define a point by using the distances to the closest four pulsars.example Larry 5.0, Curly 11.5, Moe 222.4,...
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Part One of Three: A frame challenge:Settling star systems in the Orion Arm of the Galaxy is a bit like settling the aurora borealis.When you look at a spiral galaxy from the outside, the spiral arms...
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Just use galactic center-centered coordinate system in higher-base numbers.Instead of hexadecimal, you can use base-32 and make the numbers 2 times shorter (and 3 times shorter than decimal with the...
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An unbroken string of 8 digits isn't terribly ergonomic...think of telephone numbers. Breaking things into chunks makes them both easier to remember and easier to communicate without errors. And as...
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Sun-centric Cartesian coordinates in light-yearsX is distance from sun towards galactic centerY is distance along the rotational axis of galaxyZ is normal to X and YThis is the logical development as...
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First of all, please check out our List of Worldbuilding Resources, which might give you ideas about how you want to solve this in your world. There's an entire section devoted to mapping, from a...
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Answer by flox for How to map arms of the galaxy?
Think about what your galaxy spanning civilisation needsContrary to popular belief, stars and galaxy arms are independent.That is, that spiral arms are constantly changing density variations that the...
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Subdivide itThe problem you'll run into with any galactic coordinate system is that, for your typical freighter run, you're only going to use a tiny portion of it. Yes, you could use cartesian or polar...
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Name sectors after bright starsI'm an astronomer and therefore utterly awful at naming things, but I'll vote in favor of centering each sector around one bright star -- in particular, an O or B star --...
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Option A: Use Monosyllabic Words instead of Numbers.There are 10 digits in the English Language; so, sector 4-1-2 can give you a base-10 grid for 1000 sectors, averaging about 800,000 stars per sector...
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Some background:My interstellar civilization(s) have fled our home Solar System, spreading throughout the nearby systems in the Orion Arm. They possess FTL, but for plot reasons, they have only just...
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